das Auto
Meaning in English: car
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Unser Auto steht in der Garage.
Our car is in the garage.
Der, die or das?
Auto is neuter: das Auto. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -o are das in 13 of 14 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Auto in the top 5,000
These forms of Auto are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
In unserer Straße parken immer zu viele Autos.
There are always too many cars parked in our street.
How common is Auto?
Auto is number 558 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 160 times per million words — about once every 6,300 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 59% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
Related words in the list
Words built on Auto:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 554bislangso far, until now
- 555alleinalone; only
- 556digitaledigital
- 557regelmäßigregular(ly)
- 558das Autocar
- 559gestelltput, placed; asked (a question)
- 560einzelnenindividual, single
- 561der Erfolgsuccess
- 562paara few (ein paar)
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#558
- The 5,000 most common German words#558
- The most common German nouns#141
- German A1 vocabulary#277
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#21
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.